Robert Young wrote:
> In org.apache.nutch.crawl.LinkDb on line 261 it creates a working
> directory (newLinkDb) based on the current working directory. This
> should be configurable rather than being based on where Tomcat was
> started. I am planning on writing a patch to pull the hadoop.tmp.dir
> setting if it is available, falling back to the current directory.
> 
> Can anyone see any obvious problems with doing this?

I'm not sure what Tomcat has to do with this. LinkDb does it this way in 
order to avoid rename() operation across physical volumes - if you 
invoke rename() on a local FS it may trigger a costly copy operation.


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